A potluck is a gathering of people where each participant is expected to bring a dish of food to be shared among the group. Baptist Potluck is where we will be gathering for "food for thought" from Baptists and "food for the soul" from the Word of God.

Friday, January 16, 2009

The Bible Makes Men Baptist

From LSB ~

"The Bible makes men Baptists. At a certain wicked town in one of the Southern States, some ministers of different denominations once held a revival. Most of the preachers were Baptists; but talent was on the side of the Pedo Baptists. As a result of the meeting 60 persons professed conversions.

Some of those were men of fine learning. Some of them afterwards reached great distinction as servants of their native State. At the close of the services it became a question among the ministers, 'How shall we advise the new convents as to church connection?'

It was decided to tell them that as Christians they would make a public confession of Christ, and to give them no further advice. The converts were diligent in searching the Scriptures, and every one of the sixty was immersed a Baptist.

This is only one of the many similar cases. Is not the Bible a Baptist book?" George D. Benton

(The above quote is from the article "The Bible a Baptist Book" which was in The Alabama Baptist newspaper on May 24, 1887. While the LSB does not recommend ecumenical revivals*, the above is a good illustration of the fact that an open reading of the Bible will make people Baptists.) Ditto for Bro Jeff Hallmark and Baptist Potluck* does not recommend ecumenical revivals as well.